From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Aug 6 14:51:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F39B14D62 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 14:51:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac9.wam.umd.edu (root@rac9.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.149]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20043; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:50:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac9.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac9.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA10459; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:50:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by rac9.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA10453; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:50:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac9.wam.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:50:12 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: "Jasper O'Malley" , Brian McGroarty , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Marketing FreeBSD / FreeBSD as a product In-Reply-To: <1121.933972845@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I have to disagree. Since this is a licensed trademark, it would mean > an *ongoing* outlay of money to use it (it's a yearly license with > X/Open) and I don't see that it makes as much marketing impact as it > once did, certainly not enough to justify the costs. Bummer, I didn't know they stuck it to you every way possible. How does this effect the value of the technical effort? > Most people think of "Linux" before they think of "Unix" these days > anyway when it comes to brand ID, and maybe we should be negotiating > to use the Linux trademark instead... :-) Cool beans, how much does that one cost? :) Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message